Tuesday, September 20th

Tuesday, September 20th

Isaiah 37:21-35
21 Then Isaiah son of Amoz sent a message to Hezekiah: "This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: Because you have prayed to me concerning Sennacherib king of Assyria, 22 this is the word the LORD has spoken against him: "The Virgin Daughter of Zion despises and mocks you. The Daughter of Jerusalem tosses her head as you flee. 23 Who is it you have insulted and blasphemed? Against whom have you raised your voice and lifted your eyes in pride? Against the Holy One of Israel! 24 By your messengers you have heaped insults on the Lord. And you have said, 'With my many chariots I have ascended the heights of the mountains, the utmost heights of Lebanon. I have cut down its tallest cedars, the choicest of its pines. I have reached its remotest heights, the finest of its forests. 25 I have dug wells in foreign lands and drunk the water there. With the soles of my feet I have dried up all the streams of Egypt.' 26 "Have you not heard? Long ago I ordained it. In days of old I planned it; now I have brought it to pass, that you have turned fortified cities into piles of stone. 27 Their people, drained of power, are dismayed and put to shame. They are like plants in the field, like tender green shoots, like grass sprouting on the roof, scorched before it grows up. 28 "But I know where you stay and when you come and go and how you rage against me. 29 Because you rage against me and because your insolence has reached my ears, I will put my hook in your nose and my bit in your mouth, and I will make you return by the way you came. 30 "This will be the sign for you, O Hezekiah: "This year you will eat what grows by itself, and the second year what springs from that. But in the third year sow and reap, plant vineyards and eat their fruit. 31 Once more a remnant of the house of Judah will take root below and bear fruit above. 32 For out of Jerusalem will come a remnant, and out of Mount Zion a band of survivors. The zeal of the LORD Almighty will accomplish this. 33 "Therefore this is what the LORD says concerning the king of Assyria: "He will not enter this city or shoot an arrow here. He will not come before it with shield or build a siege ramp against it. 34 By the way that he came he will return; he will not enter this city," declares the LORD. 35 "I will defend this city and save it, for my sake and for the sake of David my servant!"

Parent (noun):

1. One who begets, gives birth to, or nurtures and raises a child; a father or mother.


2. A guardian; a protector.


3. A source or cause; an origin.


4. The material or source from which something is derived.

Parent (verb):

1. To act as a parent to; raise and nurture.


2. To cause to come into existence; originate.

Father (noun):

1. God; The first person of the Christian Trinity.


2. A man who begets or raises or nurtures a child.


3. A man who creates, originates, or founds something

Make (verb):

1. To cause to exist or happen; bring about.


2. To cause to be or become.


3. To begin or appear to begin an action.

When I read this scripture through, verse 29 really stood out to me. God says he is going to “make” them do something. I then thought about how, as a parent, when we discipline our children, we “make” them do what needs to be done. We call God our heavenly father. That makes him my heavenly parent. God nurtures me, he protects me, he is the source of me cause, my origin. Without him, I was nothing and would be nothing. That is because without him, I would be without a father and without a father I would not exist.


Rage (noun):

1. Violent, explosive anger.


2. A fit of anger.


3. Furious intensity, as of a storm or disease.

Blasphemy (noun):

1. A contemptuous or profane act, utterance, or writing concerning God or a sacred entity.


2. The act of claiming for oneself the attributes and rights of God.


3. An irreverent or impious act, attitude, or utterance in regard to something considered inviolable or sacrosanct.

Sacrosanct (adj.):

1. Regarded as sacred and inviolable.

Inviolable (adj.):

1. That cannot be transgressed or dishonored.


2. Cannot be violated.

Insult (verb):

1. To treat with gross insensitivity, insolence, or contemptuous rudeness.


2. To affront or demean

Heap (verb):

1. To put or throw in a pile.


2. To fill completely or to overflowing.


3. To bestow in abundance or lavishly

Despise (verb):

1. To regard with contempt or scorn.


2. To dislike intensely; loathe; abhor.


3. To regard as unworthy of one's interest or concern.

Abhor (verb):

1. To regard with horror or loathing; detest.

I like to do this sometimes. Take a sentence from the bible, dissect it through the dictionary to get a better picture to get the real horror of what God is saying. Verse 22-23:

"The Virgin Daughter of Zion despises (loathes with horror and deems you unworthy of concern) and mocks you. The Daughter of Jerusalem tosses her head as you flee. 23 Who is it you have insulted (treated with gross insensitivity and rudeness) and blasphemed (claimed for yourself the attributes and rights of God)? Against whom have you raised your voice and lifted your eyes in pride? Against the Holy One of Israel!

I like doing this. It really shows me just how rotten I can be, and also shows me what I have been saved from. Sorry for all the definitions today. It is a little more than what I am used to doing. Johnny Out.